skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric flight in the history of flight has never been “impossible.” Anyone who told you it was impossible didn’t have the capacity/desire to think in terms of fundamentals beyond existing rules of thumb. (“Existing technology” is a nice weasel term, but we’ve had electric flight of various types demonstrated decades ago.)

30% is not high. It might convince you to do some drag reduction on your aircraft to compensate. Most small general aviation aircraft are terribly aerodynamically inefficient even compared to state of the art aircraft 50 years ago. 30% is barely relevant for the short intracity trips in this article.
I don't understand the heartburn people are having about this.

If you want to use a free distro, why not just move to one of the many distributions which are not tied to a for profit company?
What the fuck is Google doing donating to members of Congress in the first place? It should be a crime. It was a crime, until Citizens United.

Explain to me how this isn't bribery, plain and simple.
In my area of expertise and location, there are slim pickings. I moved to stay with my SO while they pursue a PhD. "There's always a choice" is a weak argument. I could move to a tech hub and get an easy cushy job in an ethically bankrupt field. I won't. I am not making life choices that maximize profit. I am also not acting irresponsibly, "living beyond my means", or making bad financial decisions.

You don't see a problem with a motivated, hardworking, educated individual meeting the market at a price that keeps them below what previous generations consider middle class? That is not indicative of an issue to you?
What does “no matter your stance on climate change” mean? (parent comment)

For the record, I am also pro-gravity.
I'd normally ignore this sort of thing, but there's so much of it that it's making the environment worse for everybody else and it has to be tackled.

This just a lazy straw-man-style troll. There's little of value in what you've said, because:

1. The thing you said used to happen didn't, and

2. The thing you say is now happening, isn't.

Of course, you're not being literal, and there's probably even some kind of point worth discussing underneath – but unfortunately your delivery doesn't help to explain it or encourage anyone to engage with it, and instead just contributes to the poisonous, pointless, shitty background noise we now all have to put up with.

I'm sure you even might actually want to make some kind of useful point about how our opinions on research can be coloured by our political views, or maybe about how there is too much preconditioned scepticism about results that fly against established consensus, or something like that.

There is a positive value in having those conversations in a constructive manner – but there is nothing but negative value in your shit contribution here, and you are making this site and our entire society worse. Please for the love of god just stop.
In other words, Google will continue to donate areas that support its business.
Anyone know the purchase price? Hard to know what to think of this otherwise. Is this a defensive acquisition, to protect a fragile Shell charging business? Or is this speculative, where they want to pump in $ to accelerate and dominate? Will Ubicitry function as an R&D/experiments arm, or actual LoB?
There are lots of well-educated people siding against the election. Those elected representatives are not uneducated. We can believe they only pander, that they do not actually believe this stuff, but then we are the ones being naïve. Many educated people really do have faith in this issue. That faith is shaken but is far from gone.
Hedge funds earned their name by their ability to hedge. Professional risk takers can balance their portfolio by placing multiple bets where they can afford a few of them coming up empty because they only need one to hit big. A keyboard commando betting their 401k on one stock is running a much bigger risk.
Weird, I would think they would go after them for the laptops. Then again, the iPhones seem okay except for their weird "security" stuff where if you swap a screen it bricks the phone after an update a few months later.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/224769/20180410/if-you-ve...

https://www.ifixit.com/News/9917/11-3-update-breaking-iphone...
90%+ of Alphabet employee donations go to one party [1]. So, that affiliation.

[1] https://www.govpredict.com/blog/alphabets-political-contribu...
Yes, that is very arguable.

The phrasing “The-opt-out-to-everything option must be as easily accessible as the opt-in-to-everything option.” is far less arguable and hiding one behind a further menu, but one not, is a clear violation of this rule.
Central banks are printing money. IPOs are hotter than hot. The odds are in favor of WSB for now.
This is not right. There is a daily fee to borrow any stock. It varies by issue and it changes over time.
A lot of other countries manage it fine. Even the US wasn't too bad until 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC).

To me it's important to separate two concepts: the ability to legally 'bribe' politicians, and the ability to spend money to get them elected. The first is difficult process to eradicate completely, but it's much less important than the second. It doesn't matter so much if politicians make decisions we don't like if we can just vote them out. To put it another way - money distorting the will of the people is a bigger problem than money distorting the will of a politician.

US politicians have to be beholden to someone to get enough money to get re-elected. UK politicians don't in the same way because they are much more restricted on what can be spent on the campaign.
Ask HN: How likely are you to not received a product from Kickstarter/Indiegogo?
I backed two years ago a KS campaign. I'm not getting anything and their customer support doesn't reply. I'm starting to think that I'll never receive my product. Is it possible/legal?
It works well for me.
The Israel alliance is hard to question simply because, unlike Saudi Arabia, Israel is very popular in the US. If all you saw was the polling data - there’s a country A with 70% favorability overall, at least 50% within each political party, and their main rival B has 20% favorability - you wouldn’t be surprised to see a strong and hard to question alliance with A.
This is an argument that has been forwarded by Starlink competitors. FCC vehemently disagrees with it.

I would rather go with FCC's interpretation on this, rather than competing commercial entities who have a vested interest in one outcome. If FCC didn't like the amendment, they could have just said no.
But if the tweet has only been live for a few minutes, you might as well delete and repost.
It sounds as if you fought for the climate to change faster, liberating tons of methane in the atmosphere and burning fossil fuels like crazy.
Let me introduce you to our lord and savior OpenSuse.
Even when using as much stat samples as possible (3000000) for each of those tables:
ALTER TABLE table_name ALTER column_name SET STATISTICS 10000;
See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html

AFAIK the PostgreSQL's approach is based upon http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.53....
The Great Divergence or European Miracle
With you 100% on the totally human reaction. Which interestingly covers awe and perhaps even bordering on worship, if I’m recognizing the reaction - one of the reasons biology is queen of the sciences IMHO. However, is it correct to say that what is being witnessed is evolution? Seems to not match up with evolutionary theory in any of it’s current definitions that I’m familiar with.
actually I consider Lisp a plus. I was asking about the algorithms mostly
> There's also the fact that America is still a very religious country - and takes it seriously - so many people support Israel because they really do believe they're protecting God's chosen people.

From what I understand, there is also a surprisingly large base of devout Christians who support Israel in the hopes/belief that it will lead to a prophesied battle at Armaggedon, helping to usher the end of the world. Apparently [0] George Bush Jr. may have been a believer in this theory (though others dispute this: [1])

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/a...

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/15/bush-chirac-and-the-war...
Discussion from 5 days ago [1], 208 comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25855367
Excellent website. I really like your graphs to quickly show where the book's focus lies.
Migrating to Webflow and testing Fuzzy Wuzzy in my bootstrapped six-figure biz
This. It's one thing to be left or right leaning.

It's another to continue to attack the democratic process after dozens of court cases have found an election to be fair and claims unsubstantiated.

What was widespread was the allegations of fraud. That's very different than findings of widespread fraud, of which there were not.
All very true! That's why I don't think Christianity is a terrible thing, despite not being a believer.

Regarding Rally - yeah I know - I drive stage. I've had my fellow competitors help me fix my car between stages, there is no family like the rally community.

EDIT: By the way, China has these things too. I was thinking of the things I wish we had.
FWIW, I also went to a smaller university in a blue collar city where that kind of rich people money was largely absent.

I still saw this behaviour a ton, and it wasn't people living large off of daddy's money, it was people living large off of way too much student loan money.

People would take the maximum loan they could get even if they were living at home with no expenses, just so they could afford a party lifestyle
This is only partially true: You are also, more than likely, your own network provider too. So unless you have full control over devices on your network (including closed source IoT devices), it takes away your agency as well.

So it's terrible, unless you can trust every device on your network.
They run Grow With Google.
Which is an entirely reasonable move, right? I think that it came a bit too close to an 'eat the rich' moment for Google's taste.
Stage Rally!
Who is "they"? Like, here is a random study--one of many--that found exactly what retrac said.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013592/

> The traditional eye exercises of acupoints appeared to have a modest protective effect on myopia among these Chinese rural students aged 6–17 years. However, no association between the eye exercises and near vision symptoms was found.
I went to school and they didn't teach me anything about critical thinking. Our grades mainly reflected how well we followed orders.

So maybe we should make everyone take a course on critical thinking. OK, what course is that? Everyone I've ever seen is garbage. Which shouldn't be surprising coming from a population that discourages critical thinking.
I've started using docker-compose the last two months. This is for frontend development with 3-4 backend services and rather old versions of MySQL and PHP (not EOL but nothing I want to install on my OSX machine). I've used vagrant previously, but the performance hit and memory usage made me look at docker.

So far I'm really happy.

We build the backend services on push to main on Github and push them to AWS container repository. I run PHP in a custom image which is basically php:x.x-apache + some extra PHP plugins.

Another usage for docker is that we have DB images which come complete with a test fixture. So instead of the default mysql image we have a custom image that contains a test database that we use for e2e tests. It's easy to reset the container to get back to a good known state and it's also easier for developers to get started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUtU0tOmNE (The Pyramid Scheme that Collapsed a Nation)
Probably net zero, as long as everyone follows the same rules. Advertising is a zero-sum game, and changing the height of the playing field shouldn't impact relative revenue all that much.
And nearly 2 million for a 3 year reserved instance.
I know this, but does the average customer without a fitness background?
Its well established the educated tend to vote left. This is not the same as affiliation
Yes, Google should support charter schools. They have a proven track record of providing high-quality education to students.
Why Is Big Tech Policing Free Speech? Because the Government Isn’t
It means people are scared enough of "Big Tech" to actually defend Donald Trump, which is what Angela Merkel did.

When he was banned from Twitter and YouTube and Facebook, they all perked up... because they realized, "That could be me..." If these companies can ban the most powerful human on the planet, they know they could be next, the moment they end up in the crosshairs.
Former ADT employee watched customers have sex for years through their cameras
Indeed. If fake news was corrected, trump would have won the 2020 election.
Or Bernie in 2016
You're doing it wrong. Integrate with GitHub the right way GitHub Apps
Yep. The UK government's current plan is to ban sales of new petrol and diesel powered cars from 2030. Running and expanding charging networks keeps Shell relevant over the coming decades, acquiring them in the hope of stalling them would just be setting fire to money.
Previous CEO of Google essentially worked for Hillary Clinton campaign in the 2016 elections.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262#efmAC9AE0
But we’re comparing it to a lottery.

We can find plenty of experts rationalizing some stocks or history, all with convincing narratives. But can you find a expert explaining the numbers which came up in lottery last night with such a believable narrative (wrong or right)?
Exactly: it gets caught when doing a hand recount. A hand recount was done in Georgia this year, for example. There were no issues. The conspiracy theories were successfully disproven.
Unencrypted DNS can be redirected or inspected and selectively blocked. DoH cannot, and whereas you can selectively tamper with DNS requests to remove advertisers, devices may fail to work at all if you block their DoH provider.
I am a creator of a web-based image editor www.Photopea.com and here are things I miss in Firefox (and why my users prefer to use Chrome):

- impossible to put an image into a clipboard (so that user can e.g. paste it outside a browser)

- no PWA mode (impossible to put an icon of a website to your homescreen, which will open the website without a browser UI)

- impossible to have keyboard shortcuts with Alt https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568130
Please name the Democrats who objected to the certification of the Electoral College votes in 2000 and 2004.
I'm not sure if I've ever seen such choice being offered in the first place. It's always either "pay with your data or don't use it at all", or "pay with your money and your data, or don't use it at all".

Also, prior to GDPR, the "pay with your data" aspect wasn't even mentioned by the companies. Ultimately, GDPR doesn't prevent people from donating their data - it just requires that it's explicit and not mandatory.
Google's NetPAC, which they encouraged Googlers to contribute to, was previously donating to many of these conservative politicians. This was a sore point for the many Googlers who would be negatively affected by those politicians' policies, notably including LGBT Googlers. And hard to reconcile with Google's stated values.

This news is good but insufficient. For starters, "this cycle"? Really? Treason shouldn't be so quickly forgiven.

For any Googlers reading this: please don't contribute to NetPAC. Try the EFF instead.
For those downvoting OP, Democrats have voted against certifying 2000, 2004, and 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/democrat-republic...
The sensible response from society is to say "if credit card companies were foolish enough to give unsecured cash loans to these people, then that's their problem".
Could you give some examples where you run into these issues with Firefox? I've seen these comments made before and, as someone who's used FF for years, I just....don't recall ever having particular issues with websites not loading correctly. So I'm legitimately curious.
It’s standard “we got bought up” jargon, but it is weird way of saying it.

Joining indicates some come goal or success, but it has become Silicon Vally slang for: Our product is dead but at least we made some money.
SDS011: PM2.5 and PM10 sensor, as in 2.5 and 10 um particulate matter sensor, ie dust/pollution. Pollen too?
In today’s job market resume driven development is a very rational choice. I work in medical devices so we are pretty conservative and generally way behind the cutting edge. This makes it really hard to find jobs at non medical companies. I would recommend anybody who has the chance to use the latest and shiniest stuff to do so because it’s good for your career .
Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?
Slow release. Conscequence of firing engineering team and focusing on politics?
I see plenty of people that graduate from ivy league schools that continue to make irrational decisions, publish irrational research, and work on irrational things.

Being offered an education doesn't guarantee you get educated.
Based on the article the control limits are 49.8 to 50.2 Hz (+-0.2hz). That's less than 1%, not very significant.

One of the places I lived in Austin, TX had a range with a clock that used grid frequencies (60hz in the US). It was dead accurate. I only changed it for daylight savings, it never need adjustment.
It's quite obvious you have never read even one of those affidavits. Vote for or support whoever you want, but try to side with truth at the very least.

The affidavits are very explicit - they directly call out names and roles. They are specific in what was actually witnessed. Go through them if you really care about truth. Otherwise we have nothing to discuss.
Smarter Crypto Investments
My bet would be that it's because the people who are in powerful positions own iPhones. You are a lot more likely to go after someone you have negative experiences with. When your original $800 iPad gets soft bricked by the appstore and your $3000 touch bar Macbook starts falling apart you aren't going to sue Samsung too, just because they have similar issues.

Then again it may just be because they are Apple, the company with enough cash to start-up a small country.
This makes sense. There's far more competition for LTL than parcel shipping, and usually, UPS LTL rates aren't the best. (My employer audits and provides contract optimization for UPS parcels; we also have an LTL rate shopping product)
This is part of what Polyrize (now Varonis) does - https://www.polyrize.com/
Open-Source Rust: 24 Frameworks, Projects, and Libraries
Fair enough. Apologies.
Big Tech will continue to tithe and sacrifice enemies of the political class people as long as the political class upholds their implied end of the contract: thou shall not pass any harmful regulation that would hurt Big Tech.
> Everybody uses autotools, show me a cmake-based distro.

The LLVM project exclusively uses cmake.
The article is paywalled, so I'm not sure if they cover this. I don't love a company owning two competing verticals when those verticals are impacted by network effects. Shell's gas business becomes less valuable the more they build out their EV business and vice versa. It creates a big potential conflict. What are the odds that a company like Shell would make the the decision that benefits society and prioritizes the EV business over their fossil fuel business?
The wine supply chain already collapsed due to Covid-19. Can hardly find a decent bottle of Port for example.
That outline was only the two paragraphs, this outline is the full article: https://outline.com/bdAVGF
> There's also the fact that America is still a very religious country - and takes it seriously - so many people support Israel because they really do believe they're protecting God's chosen people.

Even that's stickier than it initially appears, in that some of the American evangelical supporters of Israel do so because they think it's necessary to start the End Times.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/h...

These prophesies don't actually end well for the Jews.
There are long standing bugs for both of these.
It is. And the business will be wound down and the excess business integrated into current capacity by the purchaser. Kind of a win/win in that way.
Check out Methods of Inquiry [0]. I took it my freshman year of college and it’s proved to be one of the most useful classes ever. I still keep the book and reference it from time to time.

0 - Methods of Inquiry: Applied Critical Thinking https://www.amazon.com/dp/0757530443
Having a Dockerfile that copies a few binary blobs into an age-old distro image isn't an improvement, it's a huge liability. And most of that stuff that no one knows anything about anymore is like that. Same as with an old VM or PM.

I'd rather have that old crap as a physical machine. Why? Because the hardware lifetime "naturally" limits the lifetime of such applications. If the hardware dies, it forces a decision to spend some money to keep it running or throw it away, which, given that hardware is expensive, usually results in throwing it away.
I watched it on Apple TV.
4TB seems to be the limit for normal-ish servers. 32 slots filled with 128GB DIMMS. You can find servers with more slots (48 is common, 6TB), but you're going past most people's definition of "commodity".
I just asked GP to clarify what he meant.

My original comment was exactly about the ways canonical, SUSE, Debian and others are dependent on RedHat. Canonical attempted to develop upstart as their in house systemd alternative but they failed. Exactly the same thing happened with their attempt at their own graphics stack.

I don't know a lot about SUSE, but iirc their distro is also systemd based.

Edit: Suse's package manager is also based on RPM.
So succinctly:

Put frankly, Millennials are tired of getting fucked by the man. When you’re underemployed with $100,000 in student loan debt, your financial situation feels overwhelming. You really don’t want to take the advice of your parents or CNBC talking heads [5] to invest 10% of your salary for a 4% annual return. At that point, what’s another $5,000? Might as well buy some short-dated GME calls
> The problem is updates break it frequently.

And IIRC they have expressed intent to remove this possibility completely.
> no PWA mode (impossible to put an icon of a website to your homescreen, which will open the website without a browser UI)

Firefox for Android has this. Are you referring to Firefox for desktop?
tl;dr Learn analog control theory, then digital control theory. Then you will be very qualified to write software for safety systems.

Control theory is the best place to start (analog) before digital control theory, but it is a lot of math.

Digital controls is a way of building discrete (sampled rather than continuous) models and systems. Almost all control systems these days are digital—-but even modern equipment like aircraft still have some analog control systems.

To write software for safety systems such as power grid control, you should understand the fundamentals and applications of digital control theory so that your requirements, design and software will be effective.
I was referring to 'us' holding the stock not costing us. They need to pay millions on holding their position open.
Yeah I'm glad to see that Rocky Linux is being a little more upfront about donating and sponsoring, and that they already have some big sponsors. Granted, it was early in my career, but I don't remember CentOS soliciting support, and I had no idea they were struggling to cover costs until this comment. If it had occurred to me, I would have kicked them a few bucks (and probably convinced an employer or two to do something more substantial). I suppose the Internet makes CDs less useful, but I liked when more FOSS projects used to sell media and merchandise.